Originally posted on 12 June 2017 via tinyletter.

Dear Unpredict Community,

Thank you for sharing all your experiences! I loved the texts, emails, social media #unpredict posts and phone calls. 

Some themes emerged when you shared your experiences. Some people used the experience to connect with themselves through art or a meditative moment in nature. Others unpredicted by calling a friend and you did something, together. At its soul, for me, and for many others, unpredict is about connection — with yourself and/or with others. 

Unpredicted highlights from community members to give you ideas and inspiration:

-Climbing a tree and drawing from a bird’s eye view.

-Giving yourself permission to try a new art medium.

-Running along the ocean with a friend.

-Planning a birthday celebration in a treehouse. 

-Watching the new moon rise.

My unpredict experience

Inspired by YOU, I combined art and nature by attending an Andy Goldsworthy‘s opening exhibit in San Francisco. He creates ephemeral art using materials found in nature – and documents them with photography and videos. These are his words from an interview with NPR.
 

“Design implies a sense of mapping something out, and then you follow the plan; [but] these things grow, and the process of making it parallels that of growth. So in the making of a work — layer by layer, stone by stone, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, petal by petal, one being added to the next — something grows in front of you. And the process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. … It’s a lot more unpredictable, the process is far more unpredictable, and with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.”

With Andy Goldsworthy’s words in mind, there is no one recipe on how to unpredict, and your unpredict could evolve and morph and grow into something different than you expected. However, I want to start suggesting some (optional) themes as building blocks. If you have an idea in mind, do it! If not, in honor of next week’s summer solstice (in the northern hemisphere), I invite you to:

Unpredict the sun

We can play with this theme for a few weeks, and I’m looking forward to seeing how you interpret the sun and connect with yourself and with others. As my friend Christina illustrated in her comic, Unpredict! is “a provocation and invitation …to break out of our routines  — just for a little while.”

I’m so grateful for all of you to join this adventure with me and with each other!

xoMo